Stephen O’Malley and Steve Noble will release a new LP on Bo’Weavil in March. Honestly.

Okay. No funny business. I’m just going to tell you straight, because you deserve to know the truth. Steve Noble and Stephen O’Malley have a record coming out together. I’m not going to sugar-coat it, because you’re old enough now to deal with it.

English jazz drummer Steve Noble and guitarist, producer, composer, and sunn 0))) member Stephen O’Malley performed together as a duo at the legendary Café Oto last year, and now the brutally beautiful gig is available as a double LP via Bo’Weavil Recordings in March.

Noble’s drumwork is featured running full-throttle, as O’Malley begins his guitar at a low roar that expands into a chaotic rampage. Bo’Weavil recommends the discs for fans of Fushitsusha and is offering them for pre-order now.

I know you’re excited and at the same time a little freaked out by my brutal honesty. But I’m real. Respect.

Can you imagine what 25,000 LPs looks like? It makes the organizer ladies over at Hoarders shake in their boots. Add in 40,000 singles and god knows how many CDs and you’ve got one hell of a massive collection on your hands. All of this vinyl, metal, and plastic belongs to the estate of the late John Peel, the famed Radio 1 DJ who passed away at the age of 65 back in 2004 from a heart attack, and for the first time, it’s soon to be made available online.

Peel’s widow, Sheila Ravenscroft — recently discovered among towering piles of cassette tapes and empty jewel cases — is thrilled to know that Peel’s collection will soon be brought into the digital age with help from the BBC and The Arts Council.

Initially, Peel’s collection will be made part of a new experimental digital service ominously called The Space and will be available on the web, via mobile devices and as an on-demand service from Freeview HD from May to October. Eventually, though, the “idea is to digitally recreate John’s home studio and record collection, which users will be able to interact with and contribute to, while viewing Peel’s personal notes, archive performances and new filmed interviews with musicians,” notes Frank Prendergast of Eye Film and Television. Funding for the project is being provided by The Arts Council, and the BBC is chipping in its technical expertise.

Unfortunately for small labels that specialize in reissuing long-lost treasures from the English-speaking world, public access to this unparalleled collection may make their services all but obsolete. For the rest of us, this is an awesome opportunity to do some musical exploration in the type of online museum space that we’ll hopefully see much more of in the future.

The all-mighty Record Store Day rears its triumphant head again April 21 and things just got a little sweeter with news that Domino Records USA will publish its first Flexi Disc Zine in honor of Record Store Day, which will feature a) unreleased songs from five super-duper Domino artists; b) literary treats; and c) an ultra-snazzy cover from Black Dice’s Bjorn Copeland.

Entitled Smugglers Way, the flexi disc zine will include five unreleased songs from Domino artists Dirty Projectors, John Maus, Cass McCombs, Real Estate, and Villagers. Packaged lovingly along with all that good music will be 24 pages of artsy treats from both Domino and Ribbon artists. Artists contributing both long and short written pieces include Alex Bleeker (Real Estate), Ade Blackburn (Clinic), Tom Fleming (Wild Beasts), and Laura Marling. New illustrations will be provided by folks like Andrea Estella (Twin Sister), Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Connor O’Brien (Villagers), and Jon Hopkins. Jana Hunter will contribute new photography and Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) will throw in an original arranged score. And the whole thing comes wrapped in Bjorn Copeland’s sweaty arms! Look for it on April 21, and listen to the Real Estate contribution below.

Andrew Cuomo is such a cool governor! Well, I mean, I don’t actually know the guy. I don’t live in New York and the timeline of my knowledge of the guy goes as such: “New York governor” search –> “Andrew Cuomo” Wikipedia page –> now. What I do know for a fact, though, is that when he has a ball, it’s a pretty alright ball. On June 23 and 24, the second-annual Governor’s Ball Festival will take place in the largest city in New York: New York City!

While most lame-o governors would have gotten some old lame-o crooners like Tony Bennett (yuck gross), Andrew Cuomo is a cool guv, so he’s got quite the lineup planned: Beck, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Passion Pit, Cults, Devendra Banhart, Duck Sauce, Explosions in the Sky, and some other folks. Two names in particular stand out. First is something called Special Disco Version, which apparently consists of James Murphy and Pat Mahoney. That’s probably cool governor code for “DJ Set,” though. The second is the block of question marks on the festival’s second day. Which, I suppose, isn’t actually a name, but still, intrigue! The full lineup can be found at the Governor’s Ball website. If you really want more info, you can write Cuomo yourself, though he’ll probably just respond with a swear-filled tirade about how he has nothing to do with this festival and please stop writing him, you dumb internet writer.

Reunited post-punkers Mission of Burma have left one storied independent label for another. In late January, the band cut ties with Matador, the label that represents Sonic Youth, Fucked Up, Stephen Malkmus, and many more of your favorite post-bands. No official reason for their departure has been given, but in the opinion of this writer and with absolutely no factual basis for the following statement, they definitely wanted more money.

However, we can now report that Fire Records has struck a worldwide-release deal with Mission of Burma, who are currently in the studio recording a new album that’s reported to be “their most ambitious, progressive and vibrant recording yet.” The band is to tentatively release the LP (their fourth post-reunion, fifth overall) on July 10, “or else.” The albums Mission of Burma have released since their 2002 reunion — 2004’s ONoffON, 2006’s The Obliterati (TMT Review), and 2009’s The Sound The Speed The Light (TMT Review), were released by Matador.

Meanwhile, a religious mission in Myanmar has fled from a decorated bullfighter and entered into a contract requiring them to launch legal documents from some sort of catapult. Mission of Burma do not believe this will impede the July 10 release of their new album.

James Ferraro, formerly (but also recently) known as BEBETUNE$ and/or BEBETUNE$$$ but now known as BODYGUARD, has just released dropped his follow-up mixtape to inhale C-4 $$$$$ (TMT Review), which was released under his all but defunct BEBETUNE$ moniker. The new mix is called SILICA GEL and, to be clear, is under his newer newer moniker, BODYGUARD. You can get grip it right now, right here. #BLU SMOKE RINGS #INHALE DRY ICE #E-CIG #TERMINATOR #CHINESE SMOKE

Meanwhile, BODYGUARD is currently recording a ‘proper’ debut… IN THE STUDIO! The album’s due sometime this summer, presumably on Hippos In Tanks. Not much info right now, so here are more hashtags: #HOUSEOFDRYICE #LIQUIDMETAL #FLAMETHROWER # #BLU SMOKE RINGS #INHALE DRY ICE #E-CIG @BODY_GUARD_

Speaking of Hippos In Tanks, don’t forget to purchase some Ferraro-designed t-shirts when they come out in March. At least I think they are Ferraro designed. Maybe we should file them under BODYGUARD too? #swag #HARD2KILL #NZT-48 #FLAMETHROWER